Spendet bitte unbedingt für die Ukraine. Jeder Euro hilft! Die Menschen dort harren bei -20 Grad. Bravery e.V. besorgt u.a. Generatoren. bravery.berlin

Hey funny story! Remember how for like 20 years we said if you tell people to only study STEM that job market would tank & also no one would be able to think critically about rhetoric or ethics, know what happened at any point in history or value much but money? Man, I love that one. Cracks me up.

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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Winter Lantern #art #fanart #sketch #bloodborne

In the field

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Throughout a career in publishing, the commonest problem I’ve found in authors trying to break into the business is their fear of taking themselves seriously. If that’s you, try this. (Little thread follows.) 1. Remove “aspiring” or “would-be writer” from your bio. Replace it with “writer.”

Golly gee I'm painting again (work in progress)

LOVE IT Go vote! No AI in Search

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Crunch is bad. Crunch ruins lives. Crunch kills. Don't ask for it. Don't do it. It's bad. I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.

Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.

Finished another DnD party illustration in December, for @detectivelys.bsky.social and @darekt.bsky.social 's party. Loved the outfits and overall vibe. :3 Thank you! #dnd5e #dndcommission #originalcharacters #digitalartists #noai

"Die dänische Ministerpräsidentin Mette Frederiksen hat derweil gewarnt, dass eine amerikanische Übernahme Grönlands das Ende der Nato bedeuten würde. Außenpolitiker Armin Laschet sieht es ähnlich." 🇪🇺 muss sich zu den Vereinigte Staaten von Europa entwickeln oder es wird geopolitisch zerquetscht.

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

I'm reading my first Lovecraft short story, The Dunwich Horror, and I'm sorry, but as a European, it's absolutely hilarious that the village is being described as "ridiculously old" because it was built before 1700.

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

“Write to the market.” You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.

It is more important to create than submit work to submit work than worry about being published to publish at all than be too precious about where or when to have work read than get awards to be nominated at all than win— And it is more important to make what you love than never risk failing.

There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.

I feel this frustration with people, who don't at all understand what the creative process is like and make dozens of wrong assumptions, deep in my bones. The worst is when these people get to force you to use something that's making your work so much harder.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

We're reopening to submissions on January 1st. Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.

You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.

All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.

Politicians wringing their hands over why teachers are leaving the profession. The truth is, we'd get more people staying in teaching if our various Governments understood that the real purpose of education is *not* to build a compliant workforce, but a society of well-rounded individuals...

Verstehe ich das richtig – die britischen Rechtsextremen haben jahrelang ihre Bürger überzeugt, die EU zu verlassen? Und nachdem das katastrophale Folgen für ihre Wirtschaft gehabt hat, kommen jetzt die gleichen Rechtsextremen und behaupten, sie würden diese Zustände fixen können? Und DAS KLAPPT?!

As more and more creators are expected to be on camera to promote their comics, can we talk for a second about how this opens up female creators to intense harassment about their looks? Not to mention a lot of "You only have a career in comics because you're good looking" comments?

yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

This is me showing my age as a webcomic granny, but I still believe that being a digital homeowner and owning your own webcomic site + supporting each other via web rings and collectives is the best way to go. I've always been wary of comic hosting services, they will always lead to censorship

It’s not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We don’t have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: that‘s why they’re called “human rights”, and not “human privileges”.

Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous

I'm begging on my knees, whatever you do, don't think that reading historical fiction - even if it's based on real events - is equivalent to reading an actual history book.

“Gamers aren’t buying games anymore.” says the triple A gaming studios who have started using AI, cut corners and various amounts of writers and illustrators who made their releases worth playing, and are just reusing and repackaging past titles… 🙄

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Wenn man als Europäer etwas länger als 30 Sekunden über die weltpolitische Lage nachdenkt, kann man nur zu einem Schluss kommen: 1. Vereinigte Staaten von Europa jetzt. 2. Rechtsextreme Parteien isolieren — und verbieten, wo es verfassungstechnisch geht. 3. EU-Armee. 4. Digitale Souveränität asap.!

Tell your friends making cool shit in the TTRPG space you're proud of them. You never know when your words can help make the call between persevering or giving up.

Nothing’s “that deep” when you can’t read for context, and have no cultural grounding in literature.

Brief an den Weihnachtsmann Erich Kästner Lieber guter Weihnachtsmann, Weißt du nicht, wies um uns steht? Schau dir mal den Globus an. Da hat einer dran gedreht. Alle stehn herum und klagen. Alle blicken traurig drein. Wer es war, ist schwer zu sagen. keiner wills gewesen sein. 1/4

It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.

From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.

Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user? Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.

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SUBMIT 💀🖤💀

Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time. The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.

I’m opening my commissions again! Info below 🌟